Stress, Trauma and Self Hypnosis

So much of our fear and trauma patterning is reactive in nature. Why do we react, sometimes intensely, to seemingly minor stimulus?

Milton Erickson and David Cheek identified a particular state of self hypnosis that was spontaneous and run by the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. It is an automatic process, that is a psycho-physiological response that happens whenever we are emotionally or physically overwhelmed. The purpose is to "contain" the emotional or physical pain of that experience until some future time when we can handle it. Unfortunately it's buried in the subconsious so we can't really say "come out come out".

This process is subconscious, and it is automatic. We don't think about activating it when we are overwhelmed. We don't have to. It takes place in 8/10s of a second, or less, and carries a powerful emotional charge, because whenever one fragment is triggered, it ALL comes up.

The thing about the subconsious mind-it has no concept of linear time. Linear time is a creation of our conscious mind. Trauma is only as far away as that 8/10s of a second or less, to the subconscious mind.

Inorder for us to reclaim our light body, our life force, we have to reclaim those splinters of self that have been caught in time holding trauma for us. We want to thank ourselves for doing this sacred job so that we could go on. AND it's time to call ourselves back to us. It's time to change our focus.

The 7 Saywas

There are 7 saywas (SAY-wa) in the Qero teaching tradition. The saywas are bridges that connect people to their own luminous nature. Each saywa has it's own teaching and imprint, but we need all 7 ultimately. They have a slightly different, simpler, interpretation of the chakra energy that we have come to know from the Indi culture.

KAWSAY (KOW sigh) is life-lifeforce, it is the primal energy of all. It is life itself.
When we are traumatized, we literally have the life knocked out of us.
Red - is a primary color in light. It is single and absolute. When wer are traumatized, we quite literally begin to lose lifeforce energy.
Ist chakra - coccyx

NURAQ (NEW RAY) - spirit - is the awareness of our psychism and the ability to see and know that all life is animated, all energy is sentient, all has spirit. We have the ability to change shapes, perceptual states and step in and out of our highest connections.
Indigo - is a primary color, meaning that we all come to this life with this ability. Because of traumatizing events, we begin to shut this awareness down directly because of overwhelm. The more safe we feel in our lives, the more we begin to reawaken and live from this center.
6th chakra - 3rd eye

MUNAY (MOO niy) - love - is unconditional love, in all its forms and expressions. To be in MUNAY, means to come from your heart. If we keep this as a guiding principle, everything above and below falls into right order. Remember that all the chakras balance and connect through the heart as if it were a giant figure eight. The path of munay is the path of love. When they allow themselves to come fully from love, they understand there is nothing else.
Green is a primary color in light. it effects other colors.
4th chakra - Heart

When we are in right balance the complimentary frequencies are:

YUYAK (YOU yak) - wisdom - is a process of bringing our experiences to a level of acceptance and this grows us into wisdom.
Yellow - the frequency of intellect, but body intellect as well as head. Common sense, wisdom gleaned from the years of experience. This is a prized frequency, and is likened to Father Sun, Inti.
This chakra is the one we cover when we feel insecure or threatened. It is highly empathic, and we are first and foremost a feeling organism. In order for this frequency to shine within our fields, we must have the balance of red life force and green heart love open. If either hold trauma, we are unable to fully confront life.
3rd chakra - solar plexus.

CHULLAQ (CHUL lay) - oneness - is the recognition of the connection of all to everything and everything to all, and the ability to voice it. Cullaq claims our destiny, it calls us to our rightful place. Many are out of balance here, denying themselves their own voice, and their own oneness.
Cyan - a balance of the green of the heart, and the deep blue of the 3rd eye. It has to hold between two energies, and stay balanced between the heart feeling and the psychic knowing. When we have an imbalance in either our psychic body or our feeling body, we cannot step forward and speak our truth with assuredness.
The rights of the seer in the Inka traditions come from connecting the heart to the 3rd eye. This brings in the complimentary frequency of cyan, or the ability to speak from one's truth for we can "see" clearly.
5th chakra - throat

CHECKAQ (CHEC kay) - truth, and to the Qero, there is only one truth, and that truth is about love, and the balance between our actions and our thoughts in ayni. (balance).
Magenta - is a right balance of the lifeforce energy red and the spritual wisdom and psychism of blue. Only when we are embracing the right balance of knowing with lifeforce energy do we bring in our full creative life force energies and access our passion and what we have come into this lifetime to do. This is an unseen freqency in the rainbow, and many think that orange is the correct 2nd chakra frequency, but orange is only a transition color. Orange has been the frequency of the 2nd chakra until now. Now, we are attempting to truly bring in our disowned feminine power, whether male or female.

Our true frequency when the male and female is in correct balance within us is magenta. Within the teachings of the Zohar, this is the color of Shekinah, the hidden feminine that will rebalance the planet. Magenta is an invisible color on the rainbow. It is beyond that which we can "see". It must be felt, and embodied to bring us to balance, and we must reach for what we cannot see and trust that it is there.
2nd chakra - sexual organs

KALLARIY (Kal LAR ee) - embodiment - when we accept our personal journey as our own truth, and we accept ourselves as we are. We manifest at will, and are connected to the maps of conscious creation and step out of the traps of ego
White - is a mix of all colors in right balance within us, the full rainbow. The Qero call it our rainbow plume of light that springs forth from our head like a waterfall of light.
7th chakra - crown

AYNI WASI

In Qechua the word AYNI (AIY-nee) is used as a term for balance between people, groups, gatherings, and WASI (WA say)means house. Ayni Wasi can be a definition of community; all things in right relationship.

Our first community to keep in right balance is an internal one. Our body. Our physical body in AYNI, in right balance, is in homeostasis, and even our illnesses are in right balance within the landscape of the whole.

Everything works. In Shamanic work, the shaman always goes INSIDE when he recognizes an imbalance in the OUTER world around him. He corrects himself, and then the external expression comes into AYNI, into balance.

Community, for us Westerners, tends to be about rules that we put on each other. Rules of behavior, rules of engagement, rules of containment. By moving into a certain neighborhood, you may have covenants to maintain. By belonging to an organization or club, there may well be rules to belonging.

We have an internal landscape that has rules. Thinking in very simple terms, think of the chakras, and then even simpler think of colors. Consider the rainbow, a primary archeype that almost every child comes in seeming to know! My son drew rainbows on everything when he was tiny. It is a cellular remembering and understanding that everything in the Universe sings with color, vibrates with it, embraces it.

Every color has it's own frequency, and it takes all colors, all frequencies, together, to make a rainbow. We all smile and sigh when we see a rainbow, with it's mighty strength and vision. We point excitedly, get out cameras, feel peace surround us. A rainbow is magical.

There are 7 saywas (SAY-wa)in the Qero teaching tradition. The saywas are bridges that connect people to their own luminous nature. Each saywa has it's own teaching and imprint, but we need all 7 ultimately, to be whole. Most people are now aware of the luminous field, and the nature of chakras, and the corresponding colors. If you are not aware, there are many fine books and websites that talk to this. We are speaking of something slightly different however. We are talking about the true essence of light in the energetic realm.

When we are traumatized, we lose something. We quite literally lose lifeforce, we lose color, our vibration is lowered. Remember, the rainbow isn't a rainbow with one of the colors missing. By the same token, we are not our best if we are missing a frequency from our internal rainbow essence.

Each SAYWA has it's own message to offer us, each has it's own significance. They understand that this is the vital lifeforce energy that has created the Universe and everything in it. They understand that no one color is any more or less vital than any other, but that each has it's own message, teaching for us. These color forces are sentient energies that permeate the universe. When you begin to see auras you see that all living things have light force.

To really understand how light is mixed you have to understand that the 3 primary colors are RED, BLUE, and GREEN when mixing light, not the red, blue and yellow we have when mixing paint. Rainbows are circular, not linear, and our body forms the same way.

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What is trauma?

When our system has been "traumatized" it means we have been taken to the point of overwhelm. When we are overwhelmed, we quite literally take a step back, often with an inhale, and freeze. Our thinking brain goes offline, and our body brain starts encapsulating everything into a "hologram".

Everything that happens next is encapsulated and stored, isolated so that we are protected. It is encoded into what we could call an icon. This icon only needs one fragment of the primary event inorder to bring up everything, just like a hologram only needs one fragment to bring the entire image up, or our body only needs one cell to bring our entire DNA up and clone us.

With the best of intentions our bodies have been assisting us in surviving what we didn't understand or couldn't comprehend. During subsequent days, months, years, our system might get "triggered" by some fragment of the original trauma, and we are left reeling from a cascading jumble of emotions that seem unrelated to, or out of proportion for, the external event.

Trauma is most often about violation. Violation is most often about boundaries. There are many types of boundary violations. An insufficiently explained medical exam can traumatize a young child. This does not mean it was a sexual violation. NOT all violation is sexual. But all violation is a trauma event.

Unfortunately newly trained psychics tend to code violations detected in the body memory of another, as sexual violations. This is not always the case. The body remembers though, that something happened, and the important thing is to clear the trauma from the reactive body. The story is much less important than healing the body memory so that we are able to go forward with our lives.

Please don't accept a "psychic's" interpretation of your past. Trust yourself.

Pilpintu-wings of light

Pillipintu is the Qetchua word for butterfly. Having trained for many years in indigenous healing traditions, including Peruvian, I've developed a special fondness for Butterfly. She has no enemies. She lives from the sweetness of life. She struggles forth from her own coccoon, and must birth herself on her own. She transforms entirely into something new-within her own lifetime.

Butterfly then, is the pollen path. It is the path of beauty. It isn't a fierce warrior, true. But if we have done our work, we are living in light. Butterfly flies in the light. She has no reason to fear the dark. She has transcended the desire or need to battle. She lives in light.